Octavia, the Octoroon
by J. F. Lee
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Excerpt from OctaviaAunt Dinah, Simon's mother, was rather pre possessing in appearance, and was the plantation mammy, nurse and midwife, as well as the keeper of the orphan asylum for all the little pickaninnies on the plantation. Every place of any size had this character. It is often and truly said that it is the ambition of negro men to be preachers and of the women to be midwives. Simon had interceded with his master and the overseer to exempt Elsie from farm work, and to appoint her seamstress, who had several assist ants on the farm. She was very apt with the needle and scissors, cuttin...
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